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The antidote proved a counterfeit, or, Error detected and believers baptism vindicated containing an answer to a nameless author's book entituled An antidote to prevent the prevalency of anabaptism / by Hercules Collins.
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Collins, Hercules, d. 1702.
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eâ—se to their Peril be it who Constitute Churches any other way or Initiate Members contrary to the Apostolick Practice Arg. 4. THAT which is contrary to the Doctrine and Practice of John Christ and his Apostles is of Human Invention BUT the Baptism of Infants is contrary to the Doctrine and Practice of John Christ and his Apostles ergo the Baptism of Infants is of Human Invention FOR the Minor That the Baptism of Infants is contrary to the Doctrine and Practice of John Christ and his Apostles the whole New Testament Witnesseth That the Subjects of this Ordinance were Understanding Believers not Ignorant Infants and Dipping not Sprinkling the manner of Administration and therefore the consequence of the Major is true That Infant Baptism is of Human Invention Arg. 5. That Practice which hath no Promise Annexed unto it either of Sins Remissâ—on Divine Presenâ—e the Gift of the Holy Ghost nor Salvation cannot be of God or Divine Appointment BUT Pedo-Baptism hath no Promise annexed unto it either of Sins Remission Divine Presence the Gift of the Holy Ghost nor Salvation ergo Pedo Baptism cannot be of God or Divine Appointment Arg. 6. That Practice in the Church which hath the Promise of sins Remission Divine Presence the Gift of the Holy Ghost and Salvation annexed unto it is of God and Divine Authority BUT the Baptism of Believers upon Profession of Faith hath the Promise of Sins Remission Divine Presence the Gift of the Holy Ghost and Salvation annexed unto it Mat. 28.18 Acts 2.38 Mark 16.16 Ergo The Baptism of Believers upon Profession of Faith is of God and Divine Authority Arg. 7. THAT manner of Administration of Baptism which no way answers the Commission nor Intention of Christ the Law-maker cannot be Authentick BUT the Administration of Baptism by Sprinkling Pouring or Dropping doth no way answer the Commission nor Intention of Christ the Law-maker ergo the Administration of Baptism by Sprinkling Pouring or Dropping is not Authentick The Minor is clear That the Administration of Baptism by Sprinkling Dropping or Pouring doth no way answer Christ the Law maker's Commission because he Commands the Subject to be Dipt Immersed Buried in pursuance of which Command the Apostles did always so Practice Secondly It can no way answer the intention of Christ the Law-giver because his Intention was That it should be a lively representation of the Death Burial and Resurrection of Christ together with the Believers Death to Sin and a Resurrection to a new Life all which appears Rom. 6.1 2 3 4 5 6. Colos 2 12. Now what Similitude or likeness is between Sprinkling and Christ's Death Burial and Resurrection I leave to all the Judicious to consider would Christ take such care to have his Death set forth in Lively Figures at the Lord's Table in breaking Bread and pouring out Wine And would Christ appoint a Dead Figure in Baptism No no. Arâ— 8. THAT Baptism which hath manifest Absurdities cannot be of God But the Baptism of Infants hath manifold Absurdities ergo the Baptism of Infants cannot be of God The Minor is thus proved It 's full of Absurdities because asserted by some That persons have Regeneration in their Baptism before Vocation and may be visible Church Members before Conversion moreover that persons may be baptised by anothers Faith and making a National Gospel-Church instead of a Congregational and bringing in a Carnal Fleshly Seed into Christ's Church in the room of a Spiritual Seed That Faith and Repentance is required of persons before baptised yet confess that Children unto whom they apply it have neither Again They profess that Baptism is a Demonstration of a Spiritual Marriage between God and the Believer and yet Assign it unto One as uncapable of such a thing as a Stock or Stone Moreover that the Baptismal Covenant enters into the Visible Church yet deny Church Members the Lord's Supper Arg. 9. That Baptism that Introduceth Gross Errors into the Church cannot be Divine but Human. But the Baptism of Infants introduceth gross Errors into the Church ergo the Baptism of Infants cannot be Divine but Humane The Minor thus appears of its introducing Errors It was first used to wash away Original Sin which nothing but Christ's Blood could do Again It 's used to work Grace and Regeneration and Effect Salvation by the Work done and against all sence some say It is an Apostolical Tradition and that Children have Faith are Disciples of Christ that all Children of believers are in the Covenant of Grace defiling and polluting the Church with false matter and confounding the Church and the World together introducing many Traditions and Inventions of Anti-christ with it as Gossips or Sureties Bishoping or Confirmation Chrism Exorcism Consignation finally it hath made a great deal of Contention in the World and filled many with prejudice Arg. 10. The proper Subjects of Baptism are such who are capable of hearing the Word and Teaching of Repenting Confessing of Sin believing in Christ and doing it as Christ's Commission a part of Gospel Righteousness as Gods Councel and as the Answer of a good Conscience and ought to do it as a Symbol of Christ's Death and Resurrection together with our own Death unto Sin and Resurrectito a New Life ergo Infants are not the proper Subjects of Baptism Mr. Perkins saith The Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Interrogation 1 Pet. 3.21 of a good Conscience signifieth a Stipulation or Promise which the person Baptised makes in Baptism and further saith He hath a double Interrogation one from the Minister which he Conscientiously Answers to perform the things Covenanted and the other Interrogation is of his Conscience unto God whether he will accept him if he Dedicate himself as his Faithful Servant tho a poor miserable sinner But how can these things affect Little Infants How doth it appear they have the Answer of a good Conscience in Baptism To Conclude Courteous Reader I pray grant me one request and that is That you would be pleased to take my book of Baptism and consider my Antagonist's Answer unto it I also desire you would seriously compare my Answer with his Book and I hope you will find noâ—hing material left unanswered tho he hath not spoken to the Matter contain'd in three pages of one Hundred Thirty and Nine of my Book of Baptism pray consider if he doth give any Answer to my Answer or whether he saith any thing to the Arguments or Argumentative part of my Books and be not put off with Shadows instead of Substance nor with a Shell instead of a Kernel for you have Reasonable Souls do not therefore suffer your selves to be imposed upon to take Brass for Gold Non-sence for Reason nor mens Inventions for Gods Institutions but like the Noble Beraeans search the Scriptures to see whether those things be so or no and believe nothing because I or any other Man saith it but because Divine Writ affirms it In so doing you shall profit your self and oblige him who wisheth you Everlasting Prosperity FINIS Advertisement CHrist alone Exalted being the compleat Works of Tobias Crisp D.D. containing XLII Sermons on several Select Texts of Scriptures Which were formerly Printed in Three small Volumes by that late Eminent and Faithful Dispenser of God's Word Who was sometime Minister at Brinkworth in Wiltshire and afterward many of the Sermons were Preached in and about London To which is added Ten Sermons whereof Eight were never before Printed faithfully transcribed from his own Notes Which is all that ever will be Printed of the said Doctor 's The Texts of Scripture of the late Addition are as follow viz. Serm. I. John xx 19 Blessed are they that haâ—e not seen and yet have believed Serm. II. Rom. viij 32. He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all how shall be not with him also freely give us all things Serm. III. IV V VI. the Matter being undivided Titus ij 11 12 For the Grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Serm. VII Amos iv 12. Because I will do this unto thee prepare thy self to meet thy God O Israel Serm. VIII Matt. xvi 24. If any man will come after me let him deny himself Serm. IX Gal. iij. 5. Wherefore then serveth the Law it was added because of transgression till the seed should come to whom the promise was made Serm. X. Mr. Brunsel's Funeral Sermon on Gal. i. 8. Mollificium Chirurgie or the Marrow of Chirurgery An Anatomical Treatise Institutions of Physick with Hippocrates's Aphorisms largely Commented upon The Marrow of Physick shewing the Causes Signs and Cures of most Diseases incident to humane Bodies Choice experienced Receipts for the Cure of several Distempers The Fourth Edition enlarged with many Additioâ—s and purged from many saults that escaped in the former Impressions Illustrated in its several parts with twelve Brass Cuts By James Cooke of Warwick Practitioner in Physick and Chirurgery Both Printed for William Marshall at the Bible in Newgate-Street
are taught of God have the answer of a good Conscience professedly they would have a Right to the Ordinance of Baptism but this Logick will never pass the Schools My Child shall be heir to my Inheritannce ergo he is capable of understanding the signing and sealing of it at eight days old had you said he had been capable of understanding the sealing this Estate over unto him at One and Twenty it had carried more of Truth and Reason in it Why are Children denyed the Lords supper if fit for baptism what are Children believers and kept from the Lord's Table do we ever read it was denied to a true Believer what are Children New Creatures Regenerated Born again and deny them the Elements of Bread and Wine Oh! hard Father of Infants Men as wise as your self gave Infants the Eucharist for several hundred years from some of your own Topicks and will you deny it them all your long harangue about Infants being capable of one Ordinance and not of another is but wind will you say in the Ordinance of the Lord's Supper there must be inherent Grace and also Grace exercised but a state of Grace tho not exercised say you is sufficient for Baptism But how doth this Gentleman know Infants are in a state of Grace to qualifie them for Baptism the word doth not help him here and if he conclude so from Charity then there is the same reason to have the same Charity for Children of Unbelievers and more too some times because the Believers Child often falls from a pretended Covenant State Faith Inherent Holiness New Birth Regeneration when the Unbelievers Child abides in all Truly But how comes this Gentleman so bold as to Assert and Print That Actual Grace is not necessary to Baptism Did not Philip call for Actual Grace of the Eunuch before Baptism If thou Believest thou mayest How then can Persons be wholly Passive in Baptism Did the Eunuch go down into the Water and come up out of the Water Did Christ go almost Forty Miles to be Baptised and did it as an Act of Righteousness and yet wholly Passive If you can shew me another Bible where Christ since hath said Persons need not Actual Faith and are wholly Passive in Baptism I may change my mind Whereas he doth Magnify the Lord's Supper so much above Baptism I do Assert what ever is Sealed to a Believer in one Ordinance is Sealed to him in another nay there is more particular words of Incouragement added unto Baptism than to the other 'T is true 't is all comprehended in this This is my Body broken for you and my Blood shed for the Remission of your Sins but for Baptism in Acts 2. you have the promise of Remission of Sins and gift of the Holy Ghost In Acts 22. 't is said to Wash away Sins Symbolically Mark 16. Salvation is annexed unto Faith and Baptism the Lord's Supper was never so Dignified as Baptism by the Procession of the Holy Ghost and it is a Symbol of Regeneration and Justification Rom. 6. Do I see my Sins Pardoned my Person Justified God Reconciled my Person Sanctified Heaven assured at the Lord's Supper I behold the same in Baptism there I see my Sins Buried in his Grave as in the other Nailed to his Cross here I behold my Soul Washed in his Blood Justified by his Righteousness Saved by his Death and is not this a Marriage Feast And ought I not to have the Wedding Garment now as at the Table of the Lord BUT this Gentleman tells me I have Written several strange Positions I am not ashamed the World should see them You must know one of the first Arguments of the Church of Rome for Infants Baptism is That it Washt away Origional Sin Now because I say in opposition to that we know a better way to Wash away Original Sin namely The Imputation of Christ's Righteousness This is one of my strange Positions But pray which is most strange this or the applying all those Texts which speak of Regenerated Men and Women unto little Infants and what they speak of the necessity of Faith in them to apply it unto Babes who neither know Good nor Evil. 2dly ANOTHER strange Position is because I say That as Circumcision was the Door into the Jewish Church which was National so Baptism is the Door into the Gospel Church which is Congregational Now this being true in his own Opinion why should it be a strange Position Why Because I will not allow it came in the room of Circumcision Cannot I make two Doors to my House but one must be a Type of another Or rather Cannot I pull down my Old House and Build a New but my Door of my First House must be a Type of the Door of my last The Door of God's Gospel-House is larger than the Door of his Legal House that Door was only large enough for the Jews and few poor Proselyted Gentiles but the Gospel Door entertains all commers Jews Gentiles Barbarians Sythians So that the First Door could not be an Exemplar or Type of the Last Then only Males were Circumcised now Males and Females Believing may be Baptised therefore Circumcision could not be the shadow of Baptism the Subjects that enter the Door are not the same one are Ignorant Infants the other Persons of Understanding Under the Law the Subjects were wholly Passive but now Church Members must be Active in the Operations and Acts of Repentance and Faith not only those called Conformists but the Non-Conformists also have lost the Door and the Subject that should enter the Door for here are they wholly Passive when they should be Active so that the very Essence of the Ordinance is lost here is neither right Form nor right Subject and what are they that enter not in by the Door but climb up and come in some other way into the House READER consider whether this saying of mine be so strange as his which he hath put in two Mercuries shewing I was not the Author of his Book which I would not have been for the World He tells the People I was never guilty in Writing nor Preaching of any such Extensive Evangelical Truths Is not this a piece of Arrogance with a witness How hath he exposed his Profession and Name to the World besides he knows not what my Preaching is nor hath Read I suppose a third of what is written so that he speaks in the dark And whereas he saith I never was guilty of Writing or Preaching such things I hope I never shall Again Is not that a strange Position of his page 25. Because I say John Baptist required Matt. 3. of the Pharises and Sadduces Repentance from dead Works in order to qualifie them for Baptism and Gospel Church Membership every Tree saith the Text that brings not forth good Fruit is hewen down and cast into the Fire HE from hence concludes and tells the World that my judgment is That little Infants because